Africa World Now Project

Jan 27 2025 154 ep. 69 mins 1.3k
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Africa World Now Project is a multimedia educational project that produces knowledge about the African world through a series of methods that include: radio, podcast, publishing, film festivals, webinars, social media, etc. Africa World Now Project is, in essence, a multimedia open-access 'classroom' that provides actionable information which explores continuities and discontinuities in the history, culture, and politics of the entire African world. AWNP does this by engaging in organic discussions with scholars, artists, journalists, activists, organizers and others who are intentionally disruptive in assessing the various issues that exist in the entire African world.

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reflections on autonomy, direct democracy & marronage w/ Modibo Kadalie Pt. II

Jan 27 2025 59 mins  
What you will hear next is Pt II of a four (4) part series where we explore, autobiographically, the origins of Modibo Kadalie’s perspectives on direct democracy, autonomy, Black radical labor history, and Pan Africanism. Pt. II builds upon the autobiographical framework, Modibo outlined in Pt. I [so, do not forget to tap in]. This part of the conversation will explore, in mor

reflections on autonomy, direct democracy & marronage w/ Modibo Kadalie Pt. III

Jan 26 2025 59 mins  
What you will hear next is Pt III of a four (4) part series where we explore, autobiographically, the origins of Modibo Kadalie’s perspectives on direct democracy, autonomy, Black radical labor history, and Pan Africanism. Pt. I + II builds upon the Modibo’s autobiographical framework [so, do not forget to tap in]. Pt. III will explore, in more detail, Modibo’s experience

reflections on autonomy, direct democracy & marronage w/ Modibo Kadalie Pt. I

Jan 16 2025 60 mins  
The idea of democracy and its attendant operative mechanism, democratic citizenship, specifically the right to belong, is often lauded as a gift of Greco-Roman sociopolitical thought and Western European and American cultural contributions to a specific conceptualization of what comes to be known, in academic discourse, ‘modernity.’ From this historico-cultural perspective, a

Kamau Rashid on Jacob H. Carruthers & an restoration of an african worldview

Nov 19 2024 93 mins  
In the introduction of his recently published, Jacob H Carruthers and the Restoration of An African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert, Kamau Rashid [2024] posits that: “One of the central concerns evident in the scholarship of Jacob H. Carruthers was the intellectual foundations of the modern world. Although he acknowledged the importance of studying systems of oppr

land food & freedom w/ Georie Bryant

Sep 18 2024 94 mins  
The collectively generative nature inherent in the interdependent relationship between technology, the communal means of production and distribution and innovative physical and creative intellectual work is distracted and co/opted by the need to extract the value of this relationship as structured from the capitalist logic of labor. The sole purpose of this is to maintain an aggres

echoes of FESTAC '77 w/ Bro Abdul Alkalimat

Aug 07 2024 64 mins  
https://www.instagram.com/africaworldnowproject/ https://linktr.ee/Africaworldnowproject The use of forum, colloquium, and festivals to center African/a intellectual creative cultural production flows rhythmically alongside the long tradition of Pan-African tendencies. This historical continuity and our duty to move within its legacy is a project that the International Colloqui

the political praxis of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin

Jul 24 2024 108 mins  
On August 31, 1967, several thousand delegates gathered at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago for the opening rally of the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) convention. This event was an ambitious attempt to develop a broad coalition of over 200 different organizations, that included the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Students for a Democratic Society, th

the sociopolitical thought of General Baker, DRUM & The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers

Jul 05 2024 72 mins  
Today, we will listen to General Baker from a 2010 talk he gave at the U.S. Social Forum held in Detroit where he maps the history of struggle in Detroit, the formation of radical workers movements, and the legacies of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 6, 1941, right after his family had moved north from Augusta, Georgia. General B

Black radical tradition

Jun 18 2024 57 mins  
re/posting from our archive ... from 7+ years ago. a lot to grasp here!

the role of historical consciousness + global student movements w/ Mukasa Dada & Obi Egbuna Jr

Jun 06 2024 85 mins  
This discussion features Mukasa Dada and Obi Egbuna Jr. We focus on contemporary struggles of youth and student movements, globally. With a focus on the ongoing fight for Black liberation and the need for solidarity across different oppressed groups. In order to accurately understand the potentialities of the moment, the development and maintenance of a historical consciousness a